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It doesn't say what Jesus' opponents were doing in relation to His teaching on blaspheming the Holy Spirit in that passage. We have to look at Matthew and Mark for that.

Presumably, someone could repent of refusing repentance and be forgiven. Did Saul of Tarsus 'kick against the pricks?' Can someone who has hardened his heart repent? I take Matthew 12 as evidence that Christ's opponents were accusing the Holy Spirit of being Beelzebub.

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It is very clear that unbelief is not unpardonable. Jesus accepted Thomas. Paul was initially an unbeliever, but he was forgiven. Dying in unbelief is not a sin, because dying isn't a sin. Jesus died on a cross. The sin is unbelief, and it is forgivable for those who repent and have faith...

That isn't exactly accurate. Some quotations from the OT into the Greek of the NT are quotes from the Septuagint (LXX), and some are not.

Satan got permission to harm things pertaining to Job. There was a whirlwind which killed Job's children. Is Satan in Job, the 'satan', the opposer of Balam that his donkey tried to avoid, and the 'satan', the angel of the Lord that struck Jerusalem with plague until David offered sacrifice...

If you read Acts 22, you will see that James and the elders were leading people who were zealous for the law. Keeping the law, or trying to, and seeking to be __justified__ by the law are two different things. Jewish Christians didn't have to start eating pork to be saved. I got the...

Pray more. Pray for God to show you things. Pray for people, and with people. Put yourself in situations ministering to people in which, if gifts manifested, it could edify those people.

Ask and it shall be given unto you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. For he that asks, receives. He that seeks, finds. To him that knocks, the door shall be opened. Something else I found out is that if you are in a situation ministering to other people...

While I wouldn't rule out that the Lord might show that someone had a 'Jezebel spirit' I would also like to point out that the verse you quoted does not mention a 'Jezebel spirit.' I avoid using terminology like 'Jezebel spirit' and 'religious spirit' if I am teaching or explaining something...

Can you show some examples of usage of the term in the Bible that illustrates that it means that. I think Peter gives us a good rule-of-thumb understanding of what the word means. Peter wrote that holy men of old spake as they were carried along by the Holy Ghost. That's generally what it...

Make sure to burp loudly after a meal while visiting Chinese people, to be polite.

In math it's numbers that keep going up and up forever, or down and down forever.

That is a finite number of __digits___ in our numbering system. How many 'digits' did the Romans have, i,v,x,m,c... what else did they have? It's a wonder they did what they did with their numeric system.

From what I have studied, it seems like words translated 'eternal' or 'forever and ever' mean 'forever and ever' not this abstract meaning of 'eternal' which probably comes from theological/philosophical speculation more recent than the writing of the Bible. Reading that idea into verses would...

One can be stimulating, supporting, and motivating without prophesying. My understanding is that this is what prophesying does, not what prophesying is.... the function of prophesying, not the definition of it. Peter wrote of prophecies of old that holy men of old spoke as they were carried...

I don't see any scripture that backs this idea up. I've wondered the same thing. I remember hearing Hugh Ross say he read the Bible and said that it taught that God was outside of time, which was something that may have contributed to his conversion. I was tempted to send him a question to...

If all motion is relative, then the geocentric model works, too. The math to calculation positions of planets is just more complicated I suppose. (Calculating such things is not my thing.) I did see a documentary that said the galaxies in the universe appeared to be arranged along...

He's got a mix of beliefs, many of which were previously held. For example, some of the Gnostics believed that Jesus did not rise bodily from the dead.

No, it says each man is to set aside money on the first day of the week. You misrepresent what he passage says: 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in...